false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1241649542m/6073671.jpg 6073671 3 <i><br></i>Destined to be a classic, <b>Sweeping Up Glass</b> is a tough and tender novel of love, race, and justice, and a ferocious, unflinching look at the power of family.<b><br><br></b>Olivia Harker Cross owns a strip of mountain in Pope County, Kentucky, a land where whites and blacks eke out a living in separate, tattered kingdoms and where silver-faced wolves howl in the night. But someone is killing the wolves of Big Foley Mountain—and Olivia is beginning to realize how much of her own bitter history she’s never understood: Her mother’s madness, building toward a fiery crescendo. Her daughter’s flight to California, leaving her to raise Will’m, her beloved grandson. And most of all, her town’s fear, for Olivia has real and dangerous enemies.<br><br>Now this proud, lonely woman will face her mother and daughter, her neighbors and the wolf hunters of Big Foley Mountain. And when she does, she’ll ignite a conflict that will embroil an entire community—and change her own life in the most astonishing of ways. 6250196 2008 Sweeping Up Glass: A Novel total:148|5:49|4:71|3:22|2:4|1:2| 148 605 428 84 5 1 false false Thu Jul 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 11:05:10 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 10:07:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 03:18:25 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 03:29:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 18:47:04 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 01:47:15 -0700 2009 Sweeping Up Glass by Carolyn Wall is a richly told tale. We meet the narrator/main character, Olivia, when she's a woman in her forties. She's a woman who has lived and is living a hard life. She backtracks and tells the reader how she got where she is and then the story continues in present tense. ...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Aug 04 10:46:20 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 10:46:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 02:01:36 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 02:02:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false true Mon Jun 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:36:45 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 15 21:39:58 -0700 2009 1 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 16:47:05 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 17:17:33 -0700 2009 Sweeping Up Glass, Carolyn Wall manages to depict rural life in the South while transcending classification as merely local color. Seamlessly written and replete with believable, complex characters, the novel traces the development of a strong-willed female protagonist and, in theme as well as in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Fri Aug 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 19:26:28 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 14 23:20:12 -0700 2009 “The long howl of a wolf rolls over me like a toothache. Higher up, shots ring out, the echoes stretching away till they’re not quite heard but more remembered.
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This is Carolyn Wall's first novel and it is extraordinary. I actually found myself sobbing aloud as I reached the conclusion. Due to the novel's suspense, reaching the conclusion does not ...more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 19:56:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 25 09:02:29 -0700 2009 The story is a hard one: a woman's bitter history with her mother and daughter; a grandmother scraping to make ends meet while raising her grandson and looking afte...more...]]> 0 2 false false Tue May 19 12:42:30 -0700 2009 Tue May 19 12:43:05 -0700 2009
It started with Cutting for Stone and now I hereby declare my love for Carolyn Wall’s Sweeping Up Glass. If you are at all a To Kill a Mockingbird fan, read this. If you found Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes charming, read ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun Oct 11 18:46:05 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 18:52:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 14 15:05:34 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 09:43:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Aug 11 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 18:56:51 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 19:07:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Mon Feb 09 17:04:53 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 10:07:58 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 17:04:53 -0800 2009
It's the story of a strong but damaged woman who is barely ekeing out a living for her no...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 04:37:09 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 15 02:40:10 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 18:53:03 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 05:33:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6073671